Adjuvant 5‐Fluorouracil/leucovorin, capecitabine, and oxaliplatin‐related regimens for stage II/III colon cancer patients 66 years or older by Emily Jones, Zhigang Duan, Thinh T. Nguyen, Sharon H. Giordano, Hui Zhao

“…We aimed to evaluate their patterns of use, association with survival, and rate of emergency room visit (ER) or hospitalization during the treatment period. …”
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Study on the Combustion Behavior of Inhomogeneous Partially Premixed Mixtures in Confined Space by Yanfei Li, Xin Zhang, Lichao Chen, Ying Liu

“…This phenomenon highlights the strong correlation between the combustion reaction rate and the dynamic variations in pressure.…”
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Attention-Enhanced CNN-LSTM Model for Exercise Oxygen Consumption Prediction with Multi-Source Temporal Features by Zhen Wang, Yingzhe Song, Lei Pang, Shanjun Li, Gang Sun

“…We tackled two key obstacles—the limited fusion of heterogeneous sensor data and inadequate modeling of long-range temporal patterns—by integrating wearable accelerometer and heart-rate streams with a convolutional neural network–LSTM (CNN-LSTM) architecture and optional attention modules. …”
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Premium intraocular lens adoption: Insights from a national health insurance analysis by Chi-Ying Huang, Christy Pu, Chiun-Ho Hou

“…However, the adoption rate of premium IOLs increased more rapidly than that of non-premium IOLs. …”
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Development and Evaluation of a Monodisperse Droplet-Generation System for Precision Herbicide Application by Minmin Wu, Mingxiong Ou, Yong Zhang, Weidong Jia, Shiqun Dai, Ming Wang, Xiang Dong, Xiaowen Wang, Li Jiang

“…Droplet-generation experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of capillary tube outlet shape, liquid flow rate, and capillary tube size on the generation of charged droplets. …”
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Optimization for the Process Parameters of Nickel–Titanium Nitride Composites Fabricated via Jet Pulse Electrodeposition by Xue Guo, Dehao Tian, Chaoyu Li, Xiang Li, Wei Li, Mengyu Cao, Fengwu Zhang, Baojin Wang

“…The effect of current density, jet rate, TiN concentration, and duty cycle impact on the anti-corrosion property of Ni/TiN composites were investigated and optimized using the response surface method (RSM). …”
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TaER Expression Is Associated with Transpiration Efficiency Traits and Yield in Bread Wheat. by Jiacheng Zheng, Zhiyuan Yang, Pippa J Madgwick, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Martin A J Parry, Yin-Gang Hu

“…Significant differences were also observed between the three groups varying for TaER expression for several transpiration efficiency (TE)- related traits, including stomatal density (SD), transpiration rate, photosynthetic rate (A), instant water use efficiency (WUEi) and carbon isotope discrimination (CID), and yield traits of biomass production plant-1 (BYPP) and grain yield plant-1 (GYPP). …”
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Molecular epidemiological and spatiotemporal analysis of lumpy skin disease outbreaks in cattle from Karnataka, India by Manjunatha Reddy Gundallahali Bayyappa, Chandana Ramesh Uma, Shraddha Bijalwan, Sunil Tadakod, Sudeep Nagaraj, Megha Naragund, Sai Mounica Pabbineedi, Chethan Kumar Harlipura Basavarajappa, Baldev Raj Gulati

“…Molecular studies unveiled a genetically stable lumpy skin disease virus strain unique to Karnataka, consistent with the low mutation rate of DNA viruses.DiscussionThese findings emphasize that, despite vaccination success, persistent hotspots and vulnerable cattle groups remain. …”
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A Hardware Architecture of a Dynamic Ranking Packet Scheduler for Programmable Network Devices by Mostafa Elbediwy, Bill Pontikakis, Jean-Pierre David, Yvon Savaria

“…The introduction of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) separated the control and data forwarding planes, but the data plane still requires a fully programmable packet scheduler that can adapt to different traffic patterns and offer high expressiveness at line rate. …”
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Modelling cold firn evolution at Colle Gnifetti, Swiss/Italian Alps by M. Gastaldello, E. Mattea, M. Hoelzle, H. Machguth

“…At the saddle point (SP), our results show surface melt increasing at a rate of 0.53 cm w.e. yr<span class="inline-formula">⁻²</span> – representing a doubling over the 21-year period. …”
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Modeling of spatial spread of COVID-19 pandemic waves in Russia using a kinetic-advection model by V. V. Aristov, A. V. Stroganov, A. D. Yastrebov

“…In addition to the high infection rate, the high spread rate is due to the increased mobility of contemporary populations. …”
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Response of Water-Use Efficiency (WUE) in Alpine Grasslands to Hydrothermal and Radiative Factors Across Elevation Gradients by Ye Tian, Wan Zhang, Xiao Xu, Bingrong Zhou, Xiaoyun Cao, Bin Qiao

“…Moreover, contribution rate analysis showed an elevation-dependent shift in WUE control: evapotranspiration (ET) exerted a dominant influence at low elevations (contribution rate: −82.50%), while net primary productivity (NPP) became the primary driver at high elevations (contribution rate: 54.71%). …”
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The Mirror of Erised: a retrospective population-wide study of Czech all-cause mortality data by COVID-19 vaccination status by Ondrej Vencalek, Tomas Furst, Elizabeth Princova, Jana Furstova

“…Abstract Background In this study, we investigated the association between COVID-19 vaccination status and all-cause mortality (ACM) rate in the population of the Czech Republic between January 2020 and December 2022. …”
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Prognostic significance of right subdiaphragmatic washing cytology in patients with endometrial cancer by Takanori Yokoyama, Shinichi Okame, Mika Okazawa-Sakai, Etsuko Fujimoto, Yumi Hibino, Norihiro Teramoto, Kazuhiro Takehara

“…Patients with both pelvic and right subdiaphragmatic positive cytology had significantly higher peritoneal recurrence rates than those negative at both sites. However, patients with only positive pelvic cytology showed no significant difference in the recurrence rate. …”
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Stabilization of diastolic calcium signal via calcium pump regulation of complex local calcium releases and transient decay in a computational model of cardiac pacemaker cell with... by Alexander V Maltsev, Victor A Maltsev, Michael D Stern

“…Thus, the local interplay of SR Ca pump and release channels regulates LCRs and Ca transient decay to insure fail-safe pacemaker cell operation within a wide range of rates.…”
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Remote sensing-based shoreline change investigation in Klang Coast and Langkawi Island towards sustainable coastal management by Minhaz Farid Ahmed, Bijay Halder, Liew Juneng, Aitazaz Ahsan Farooque, Zaher Mundher Yaseen

“…Langkawi Island’s endpoint rates (EPR) varied between −1.34 and 1.02 m/year, whereas linear regression rate (LRR) was found to be 1.04 m/year for accretion and −0.84 m/year for erosion. …”
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Evaluation of dose delivery accuracy of the lung with the respiratory technique of the Radixact Synchrony real-time tumor tracking system by Evren Ozan Göksel

“…Furthermore, no significant correlation was found between GAWM and respiratory pattern-related variables, including superior-inferior and lateral motion amplitude or respiratory rate per minute. …”
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Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in immunocompromised cancer patients: epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, and virulence factors by Asmaa Abdulhak, Hamdallah H. Zedan, Hadir A. El-Mahallawy, Ahmed A. Sayed, Hend O. Mohamed, Mai M. Zafer

“…The crude 30-day mortality rate was 26.9%, with higher mortality detected in infections due to XDR strains. …”
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Adoption of Large Language Model AI Tools in Everyday Tasks: Multisite Cross-Sectional Qualitative Study of Chinese Hospital Administrators by Jun Chen, Yu Liu, Peng Liu, Yiming Zhao, Yan Zuo, Hui Duan

“…Targeted training programs, combined with organizational strategies to build trust and improve accessibility, could enhance adoption rates and broaden tool use. Future quantitative investigations should validate the adoption rate and influencing factors.…”
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Prevalence, species identification, and antibiotic resistance of Staphylococci in dogs visiting veterinary clinics in Vietnam. by Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, Nguyen Vu Thuy Hong Loan, Nguyen Thuy Y Vi, Dao Huyen Tran, Luu Thi Thanh Hang, Sandra Steele, Lam Thanh Nguyen

“…Isolates from diseased dogs exhibited higher antibiotic-resistance rates than those from healthy dogs. Several antibiotic-resistance genes were identified, with aacA-aphD being the most prevalent, followed by tetK, gyrA, mecA, msrA, dfrA, and ermA. …”
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